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At the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
a.choose the correct letter in a multiple-choice
question about Asian Literature;
b.analyze a representative text through a group
work; and
c.develop an appreciation for the rich diversity of
experiences, traditions, and worldviews
represented in African and Asian literature.

Representative
Texts and
Authors from Asia

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Asia, the largest continent in the world,
has a vast literary tradition in terms of
scope and length of existence. Literature
in the Eastern hemisphere prospered
and mirrored the developments in
religion, war, and politics.

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East Asia
China, one of the world’s cradles of civilization, has started
its unbroken literary tradition in the 14th century BCE. The
preservation of the Chinese language (both spoken and
written), has made the immeasurable prolonged existence of
their literary traditions possible. It has retained its reputation
by keeping the fundamentals of its identity intact. Poets like
Du Fu, Li Po, and Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty (618-907),
the finest era of Chinese literature, has produced world-
renowned literary works. Chinese writers in modern times
are still creative and productive and have kept the Chinese
literary tradition prosperous.

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FAMOUS AUTHORS IN
CHINA

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• Du Fu
He is also known as Tu fu. According to
many literary critics, he was the
greatest Chinese poet of all time. He
wrote the poem “The Ballad of the Army
Cats” which is about conscription—and
with hidden satire that speaks of the
noticeable luxury of the court.

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• Li Po
He is also known as Li Bai, a Chinese poet
who is a competitor of Du Fu as China’s
greatest poet. He was romantic in his
personal life and his poetry. His works are
known for its conversational tone and vivid
imagery. He wrote the poem “Alone and
Drinking under the Moon” that deals with
the ancient social custom of drinking.

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• Wang Wei
He was a poet, painter, musician, and
statesman during the Tang dynasty (the
golden ages of the Chinese cultural history).
He was the established founder of the
respected Southern school of painter-poets.
Many of his best poems were inspired by
the local landscape.

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• Yu Hua
He was a world-acclaimed short story writer
and considered as a champion for Chinese
meta-fictional or postmodernist writing. His
widely acclaimed novel “To Live” describes the
struggles endured by the son of a wealthy
land-owner while historical events caused and
extended by the Chinese Revolution are
fundamentally altering the nature of Chinese
society.

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Poets like Du Fu, Li Po, and Wang Wei of the Tang
Dynasty (618-907), the finest era of Chinese literature,
has produced world-renowned literary works. Chinese
writers in modern times are still creative and productive
and have kept the Chinese literary tradition prosperous.

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Korea’s literary tradition is greatly
influenced by China’s cultural dominance.
As early as the 4th century CE, Korean
poets wrote literary pieces in Classical
Chinese poetry then transformations
happened at the 7th century.

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Hangul, Korean’s distinct writing systemand
national alphabet, is developed in the 15th century
that gave new beginnings of Korean literature. In
contemporary times, the Korean War has made a
significant mark on Korean literature. In 1950, the
themes present in the literary works are about
alienation, conscience, disintegration, and self-
identity.

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FAMOUS AUTHORS IN
KOREA

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• Ch’oe Nam-Seon
He was considered a prominent historian,
pioneering poet, and publisher in the Korean
literature. He was also a leading member of the
modern literary movement and became notable
in pioneering modern Korean poetry. One of his
works, the poem "The Ocean to the Youth” made
him a widely acclaimed poet. The poem aimed to
produce cultural reform. He sought to bring
modern knowledge about the world to the youth
of Korea.

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"The Ocean to the
Youth”

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• Yi Kwang-su
He was also the one who launched the
modern literary movement together with
Ch’oe Nam-Seon. He was a novelist and
wrote the first Korean novel “The Heartless”
and became well-known because of it. It
was a description of the crossroads at
which Korea found itself, stranded between
tradition and modernity, and undergoing
conflict between social realities and
traditional ideals.

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“The Heartless”

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• Kim Ok
He was a Korean poet and
included in the early modernism
movement of Korean poetry. He
wrote the first Korean collection of
translation from Western poetry
“The Dance of Agony”.

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• Yun Hunggil
He was a South Korean novelist who
won the 1977 Korean Literature Writers
Award. He wrote the classic novel
“Changma” (The Rainy Spell) that on a
post-war family with two grandmothers
and their shared grandson.

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• Park Kyongni
She was a South Korean poet and novelist. She
wrote the Korean’s masterpiece and internationally
acclaimed 21-volume epic novel T’oji (“The Land”),
wherein she chronicled the violent Korean history
from 1897 to 1945.

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Japan has a rich and unique literary history even
though it has been influenced by the Chinese
language and Chinese literature. It has a world-
renowned poetic genre called “Haiku” ( a short
descriptive poem with 17 syllables) and the
diverse forms of theatre “Noh” (traditional
Japanese theatrical form and one of the oldest
extant theatrical forms in the world) and “Kabuki”
(traditional Japanese popular drama with singing
and dancing performed in a highly stylized
manner).

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Japanese literature reflects simple yet
complex, imperfect yet abounding with beauty
– the traditional Japanese cultural identity. In
contemporary times, Western influences take
part in the Japanese literature, specifically in
the pioneering of modern Japanese novels,
translations of the poetry, and reinventions of
traditional Japanese poetic forms like haiku
and tanka. Playwrights like Abe Kobo and
Mishima Yukio are Japan’s notable literalists.

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FAMOUS AUTHORS IN
JAPAN

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• Abe Kobo
He was a Japanese novelist and playwright and also
known by the pseudonym of Abe Kimifusa. He wrote
the best-known play "Tomodachi" (Friends) which is a
story, with dark humor, reveals the relationship with
the other, and exposes the peculiarity of human
relations in the present age." He also won the 1967
Akutagawa Award. He also won the 1951 Akutagawa
Award for his short novel Kabe (“The Wall”).

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• Kimitake Hiraoka
He is also known by the pen name Mishima Yukio,
the most important Japanese novelist of the 20th
century. He was one of the finalists of the 1963
Nobel Prize for Literature and won numerous
awards for his works. He wrote the novel “The
Temple of the Golden Pavilion” and won Yomiuri
Prize from Yomiuri Newspaper Corporation for the
best novel. “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”,
translated into the English language by Ivan Morris,
based on the burning of the Reliquary (or Golden
Pavilion) of Kinkaku-Ji in Kyoto by a young Buddhist
acolyte in 1950.

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• Haruki Murakami
He was a Japanese novelist who won the
international award Jerusalem Prize. He also
won the Gunzou Literature Prize for his first
novel “Hear the Wind Sing”. It featured
episodes in the life of an unnamed protagonist
and his friend, the Rat, who hang out at a bar.
The unnamed protagonist reminisces and
muses about life and intimacy. Murakami’s work
has been translated into more than fifty
languages.

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• Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
He was a Japanese writer and regarded as the Father
of the Japanese short story. He wrote the short story
“Rashomon” that recounts the encounter between a
servant and an old woman in the dilapidated
Rashōmon, the southern gate of the then-ruined city of
Kyoto, where unclaimed corpses were sometimes
dumped. The Akutagawa Prize, Japan’s premier
literary award was named after him to honor his
memory after he died by committing suicide.

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Middle East
Arabic literary tradition has been flourishing in the Middle
East. Islam is the foundation of culture in this region - an
essential component. Its literary tradition has grown and
influenced others like Persian, Byzantine, and Andalusian
traditions. In return, Arabic literature has also been
influenced by other literary traditions of different countries.
Even European literature followed and imitated Arabic
literature. In contemporary times, Arabic writers experience
difficulties in producing their literary texts due to the issue of
freedom of expression and the tension between religious
and secular movements.

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FAMOUS AUTHORS IN
ARABIA

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• Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad
He was an Egyptian poet, journalist, and literary
critic, an innovator of the 20th-century Arabic
poetry and criticism. He became famous for his
Abqariyat series, a seven-book compilation that
covers the life of seven of the most important
Sahabah (the disciples and followers of
Muhammad).

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• Taha Hussein
He was an Egyptian novelist, essayist,
critic, and an outstanding figure in
Egyptian literature. His nickname was
“The Dean of Arabic Literature”. He wrote
the novelized autobiography “The Days”,
one of the most popular works of modern
Arabic literature that deals with his
childhood in a small village, then his
studies in Egypt and France.

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• Ali Ahmad Said Esber
He is known also as Adonis as his pseudonym. He is an
award-winning Syrian-born Lebanese poet, literary
critic, and is a leader of the modernist movement in
contemporary Arabic poetry. He was the recipient of
numerous honors, including the 2011 Goethe Prize and
the 2017 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in
International. Some of his famous poems are “First
Poems” and “Leaves in the Wind”.

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• Etgar Keret
He is an Israeli writer known for his short
stories, graphic novels, and scriptwriting for
film and television. His 2019 Fly Already
(“Glitch at the Edge of the Galaxy”)
published in English won Israel’s prestigious
Sapir Prize in Literature.

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South and Southeast Asia
India is the cultural giant over South Asia. Hallmark writings such as
Veda, the Brahmanas, and the Upanishads are the roots of Indian
literature. As early as 1500 BCE, the Veda written in the Sanskrit
language introduced the birth of Indian literary works.
Around the 16th century, written literature in India appeared. In the
succeeding centuries of British colonization, English literature
emerged that happen to be the significant influence of Indian literary
traditions until the 21st century period. Kalidasa is a notable and
famous Indian writer considered to be the Hindu Shakespeare.

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The literary traditions of Southeast Asia possess the
influences of Buddhist, Thai, and English cultures,
especially in Burma literature. Malaysian and
Indonesian literature reflects a large part of the
Sanskrit language and Islam culture.

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In contemporary times, India still manifests
the impact of colonial rule through the
presence of the English language in literary
traditions. Numerous Indian writers like the
Rabindranath Tagore, Prem Chand, Raja
Rao, and R.K. Narayan are highly
accomplished and internationally known.
Southeast Asia literature presents themes on
colonial and postcolonial experiences in
Burmese literature and western literature
influences in Thailand Literature.

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FAMOUS AUTHORS IN
SOUTHEAST ASIA

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• Rabindranath Tagore
He was a Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer,
playwright, essayist, and painter. He was referred to as “the
Bard of Bengal”. He is a towering figure of world literature and
the most famous modern Indian poet. He won the 1913 Nobel
Prize for Literature award for his book The English Gitanjali or
Song Offerings. It is a volume of poetry which is a collection of
devotional songs to the supreme.

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• Dhanpat Rai Srivastava
Also known by his pseudonym Prem Chand, he is a famous
Indian author of novels and short stories of his modern
Hindustani literature. He pioneered in adapting Indian themes
to Western literary styles. He wrote the most popular Hindi
novel “Godaan” (Cow Donation) and considered one of the
greatest Hindi novels of modern Indian literature. Its theme
was around the socio-economic deprivation as well as the
exploitation of the village poor.

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• Raja Rao
He is an Indian writer of novels and short stories in
the English language. His famous novel “The
Serpent and the Rope”, a semi-autobiographical
account of the narrator, a young intellectual
Brahman, and his wife seeking spiritual truth in India,
France, and England, recognized him as one of the
fines Indian prose Stylists. It won him the Sahitya
Akademi Award. He was also rewarded the Neustadt
International Prize for Literature. His literary works in
various genres had a significant contribution to
Indian and to world literature.

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• Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayan (R. K.
Narayan)
One of the finest Indian authors in the English
language, he wrote the Sahitya Award-winning
novel “The Guide” which was adapted for film and
for Broadway. It was based on the fictional town in
South India and describes the transformation of the
protagonist from a tour guide to a spiritual guide
and one of the greatest holy men of India.

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• Chart Korbjitti
He is the most successful Thai writer. He was
recognized by his publication of his novel
Khamphiphaksa (The Judgment). His novel was
named as Book of the Year by Thailand's
Literature Council and won him the S.E.A Write
Award. He was awarded the National Artist in
Literature (2004) and was among the honorees
of the inaugural Silpathorn Award, given to Thai
contemporary artists.

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• Nguyen Du
The best-loved poet and the father of
Vietnamese literature, he was most known
for his epic poem “The Tale of Kieu” that
recounts the life, trials, and tribulations of
Thuy Kieu, a beautiful and talented young
woman, who has to sacrifice herself to save
her family. She sells herself into marriage
with a middle_x0002_aged man, not
knowing that he is a pimp, and is forced into
prostitution.

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• Tengku Amir Hamzah
He was an Indonesian poet and National Hero of
Indonesia. His poem collection “Nyangi Sunyi” is
considered the most developed and shows the
theme of God and His relationship to humanity, fate,
dissatisfaction, and escape. Some literary critics
think that the collection is an attempt to address the
worldly problems of Amir. He was the only
Indonesian poet recognized internationally.

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Central Asia
Central Asian literature has different literary
characteristics and political in culture. In
contemporary times, Russian influence
continues to be present in Central Asia literature.
Some of the Central Asian writers and their
literary works pave their way to be known
worldwide.

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FAMOUS AUTHORS OF
CENTRAL ASIA

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• Abdullah Qodiriy
He was known by the pseudonym Julqunboy.
He was one of the most influential Uzbek writers
of the 20th century and Soviet playwright, poet,
writer, and literary translator. His most famous
work is the historical novel O’tgan kunlar (Days
Gone By), the first Uzbek full-length novel.

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• Mukhtar Auez-uli
He was an early Soviet Kazakh writer and won
recognition for the long novel “Abay” which is
based on the life and poetry of Kunanbay-uli

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• Chingiz Aytmatov
He was a Soviet and Kyrgyz author and the best-known
figure in Kyrgyz and Russian literature. “Jamila”, his first
major novel was told from the viewpoint of a fictional
character that tells the story by looking back on his
childhood. The story recounts the love between his new
sister-in-law Jamilya and a local crippled young man,
Daniyar, while Jamilya's husband, Sadyk, is "away at the
front" (as a Soviet soldier during World War II).

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Group Work
Directions: Analyze a poem through a group group work.
Battle
Chu’u Yuan
Translated by Arthur Waley
“We grasp our battle-spears: we don our breast-plates of hide.
The axles of our chariots touch: our short sword meet.
Standards obscure the sun: the foe roll up like clouds.
Arrows fall thick: the warriors press forward.
They menace our ranks: they break our line.
The left-hand trace-horse is dead: the one on the right is smitten.
The fallen horses block our wheels: they impede the yoke-horses!”
They grasp their jade drum-sticks: they beat the sounding drums.
Heaven decrees their fall: the dread Powers are angry.
The warriors are all dead: they lie on the moor-field.

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They issued but shall not enter: they went but shall
not return.
The plains are flat and wide: the way home is long.
Their swords lie beside them: their black bows, in
their hand.
Though their limbs were torn, their hearts could
not be repressed.
They were more than brave: they were inspired
with the spirit of “Wu”.
Steadfast to the end, they could not be daunted.
Their bodies were stricken, but their souls have
taken Immortality—
Captains among the ghosts, heroes among the
dead.

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Questions:
1. What emotions does "Battle" evoke to the
readers?
2. What are the central themes of "Battle"?
3. Reflect on your emotional response to "Battle."
What aspects of the poem resonate with you
personally?

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Directions: In 1/4 sheet of paper, choose the correct letter in a
multiple-choice question about Asian Literature.
_______1. What refers to the imaginative
works of prose and poetry?
a. Art b. Form c. Divisions d. Literature

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_______ 2. What refers to the largest continent in the
world and has a vast literary tradition in terms of
scope and length of existence?
a. Africa b. Australia c. Europe d. Asia

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_______3. What is Korean’s distinct writing system and
national alphabet, is developed in the 15th century that
gave new beginnings of Korean
Literature?
a. Noh b. Kabuki c. Haiku d. Hangul

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_______ 4. What is the Japanese novel written by Haruki Murakami that
features an
episode in the life of an unnamed protagonist and his friend rat who hang
out a bar?
a. Rashomon b. The Days c. Hear the Wind Sing d. Leaves

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_______ 5. In what literature does the poem “The
Battle” belong?
a. Chinese Literature b. Japaneses Literature
c. Korean Literature d. Indian Literature

Directions: Choose one short story of your
choice from the Asian literature then produce a
home reading report about your chosen literary
piece. Write your responses on a whole sheet of
paper.

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